This is the grave of Paul Laurence Dunbar. A pioneering African-American poet, Dunbar was born in Dayton in 1872 to former slaves who had traveled north from Kentucky after emancipation. He started wr
This is the grave of Potter Stewart. Born in Jackson, Michigan in 1915, Stewart was a member of a powerful Ohio Republican family. His father was mayor of Cincinnati and then served on the Ohio Suprem
This is the grave of Elbridge Gerry. Born in 1744 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Gerry grew up in a Massachusetts elite merchant family. He gradated from Harvard in 1762 and received an M.A. from the s
This is the grave of Omar Bradley. I don’t have indifference to military history, I have open hostility to it and to the people who find interest in utterly pointless details of military operati
This is the grave of Stephen Solarz. Born in 1940 in Manhattan, Solarz became interested in politics from a young age, received an MA in public law and government from Columbia in 1967 and taught for
This is the grave of William Howard Taft. While I am far past the point of venerating presidents, I find Taft a pretty interesting case, largely because his reputation today is so shaped by that egoce
This is the grave of Ron Brown. Born in 1941, Brown grew up in a middle-class Harlem family and attended elite prep schools, one of the first black students at some of them. He attended Middlebury, gr
This is the grave of Billy Sunday. Born in 1862 in Iowa, Billy Sunday (his actual name) grew up poor. His father was in the Union army and died four months after his son’s birth of pneumonia, a